Kellie Warren voted in 2023 to make drop boxes ILLEGAL as a way to return mail ballots.
Despite assurances from local and state election officials about the efficiency and security of ballot drop boxes, and the fact that they’ve been used since 1978, the Kansas Senate last year voted on a bill to completely ban them. Sen. Cindy Holscher voted NO on the ban and Sen. Kellie Warren voted YES. (This provision was passed by the KS Senate but later removed from the bill.)
Also in 2023, both the KS House and Senate voted on a bill to restrict the number of days a mail ballot has to be returned via mail. Even though ballots already MUST be postmarked by Election Day and received by the Friday of that week, election-deniers voted to eliminate the grace period between Election Day and Friday. Kansas law stipulates the first day mail ballots can be sent out by an election office, so eliminating the grace period effectively would have given Kansans fewer days to vote. This vote disenfranchised military members, college students, and disabled Kansans who must vote by mail. (That bill passed, was vetoed by Gov. Kelly, and the vote to override her veto failed.)
Voting to eliminate the grace period that voters have to get an Election-Day-postmarked mail ballot back to the election office:
Kellie Warren
Chris Croft
Sean Tarwater
Carl Turner
We posted in 2023 about these unreasonable attempts to make it harder to vote: https://www.standupbluevalley.org/post/did-your-ksleg-members-vote-to-make-it-harder-for-you-to-vote
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